[Pulp-dev] Composed Repositories

[Jeff Ortel]

On 05/15/2018 10:27 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 05/14/2018 03:44 PM, Jeff Ortel wrote:
>> Let's brainstorm on something.
>>
>> Pulp needs to deal with remote repositories that are composed of
>> multiple content types which may span the domain of a single plugin.
>> Here are a few examples.  Some Red Hat RPM repositories are composed of:
>> RPMs, DRPMs, , ISOs and Kickstart Trees.  Some OSTree repositories are
>> composed of OSTrees & Kickstart Trees. This raises a question:
>>
>> How can pulp3 best support syncing with remote repositories that are
>> composed of multiple (unrelated) content types in a way that doesn't
>> result in plugins duplicating support for content types?
>>
>
> Both these examples are cases of RPM repos, yes? If so, does this
> require a general purpose solution?

The example in the thread is mainly RPM but there are other repositories 
with shared content types.  Eg: OSTree repositories also containing 
Kickstart Trees.

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> -- bk
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